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Ninehigh - 12/9/12 at 10:12 PM

This laptop has been bugging me recently, not displaying pictures, refusing to run things.. I'm guessing all sorts of stuff needs updating.. So I'd like to start from the start.

So how do I "refresh" my install of Vista (no I'm not changing) from the other partition thing I have?

blakep82 - 12/9/12 at 10:53 PM

restart, press the button it tells you to press to interrupt startup (esc, F8 or F11 are common) you don't really get very long to do this though.
follow repair and recovery instructions, will be fairly specific to your laptops manufacturer really, leave it a while, might take an hour or so

tbh, i suspect your laptops biggest problem is vista, but its your call

James - 13/9/12 at 03:34 PM

Am sure you know this but just in case...

it will wipe your current partition and unless you backup to another location you will lose everything.

So remember your photos, documents, favourites/bookmarks, etc. etc.

HTH,
James

Ninehigh - 13/9/12 at 05:36 PM

quote:
Originally posted by James
Am sure you know this but just in case...

it will wipe your current partition and unless you backup to another location you will lose everything.

So remember your photos, documents, favourites/bookmarks, etc. etc.

HTH,
James


Istr a recovery option on my old XP disc, I'm hoping there's a similar thing with this partition. But yeah I'll be backing it all up anyway

Jasper - 28/9/12 at 09:24 AM

quote:
Originally posted by James
Am sure you know this but just in case...

it will wipe your current partition and unless you backup to another location you will lose everything.

So remember your photos, documents, favourites/bookmarks, etc. etc.

HTH,
James



Hate to disagree James, but when you do a repair/install like this it copies all your old files into a 'Windows.old' file so you still have them there afterwards. Still I would never trust this so it's always better to do a back up to an external HDD.